Well let's see I recently got a Corsair H50 liquid cooling system put in and wanted to see how far I could take my Q6600 as I was plan on upgrading my GPU to the 5850 card. Anyways I noticed that by simply even overclocking my CPU from 2.4Ghz to 2.7Ghz or higher would be unstable. I have successfully got it stable at 2.6Ghz. Anyways I think I have tried literally everything I have asked the same question in almost 4 different forums, eggxpert, some friends, etc. They all seem to come to the same conclusion of "I don't know what to tell you." or "You're obviously doing something wrong." So I still want to try and get this CPU to 2.8Ghz I would be even happier if 3.0Ghz was possible. I don't know if I've failed to overclock this CPU properly because of simple miscommunication, lack of knowledge on the subject, or simply my hardware is not capable of it. I still want to get an answer I hate having a question but no answer. Either way I'm going to try and communicate to the best of my ability and hopefully someone can help me with this. Let's start off with giving a detailed list of the components in my computer.
I believe that is all. Now for the settings I put in the BIOS I could list all day long on all the combination of settings I used. But let's just say I tried disabling features that were recommended by overclockers, I tried putting all the voltages really high like 1.45v to 1.525v, I also tried to unlink, link the ram from the CPU frequency. Also tried changing the mutlipliers, lowering the RAM frequency to 550Mhz etc etc. It will not go to 2.7Ghz or higher without stable results like it will just reboot and reboot.
With the CPU @ 2.6Ghz I am stable with 40C idle and 10hours of Prime95 under 100% load max temps of 51c. So I think I have more room for overclocking.
That's all the information I can think of right now. If you have any questions I will try and respond ASAP. Though it's pretty late here at the time of writing this so I will probably not be able to respond to your replies until tomorrow. Thanks!
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With the CPU @ 2.6Ghz I am stable with 40C idle and 10hours of Prime95 under 100% load max temps of 51c. So I think I have more room for overclocking.
That's what makes me wonder right there. It is basically a cold cpu, and should be able to hit at least a 2.9Ghz, but then I realized you are using an Intel. JK
Did you consider that you might have a stability hole? I know you said that it isn't stable above 2.6, but did you try to crank it up a little extra and skip over 2.7? The guys at Bit-tech ran into that problem when testing the Q6600 and a Asus P5K Deluxe.
You also said that you played with a bunch of combinations, I'm assuming you played around with the CPU Voltage at the same time as the vCore Voltage?
And you said you played with the multipliers. Other than that man, I hate to say it, but I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you just have a faulty MOBO or CPU.
I'm still a learner when it comes to this OC stuff, so I'll be watching this thread for when someone wiser than I posts.
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PSU: Coolermaster 600watt EXTREME POWER - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817171013
Motherboard: C2D NFORCE 680I SLI 775MB - http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6813188009
CPU: Intel Quad-Core Q6600 2.4Ghz(G0) - http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6819115017
CPU cooling system: Corsair H50 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] sair%20H50
RAM: A DATA 1GB DDR2 PC6400 x 2 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product
RAM #2: Also later on put in the A DATA 2GB DDR2 PC6400 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product (NOTE: totaling in at 4GB of ram)
Video Card: EVGA 8800GTS 640MB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130071
Operation system: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I believe that is all. Now for the settings I put in the BIOS I could list all day long on all the combination of settings I used. But let's just say I tried disabling features that were recommended by overclockers, I tried putting all the voltages really high like 1.45v to 1.525v, I also tried to unlink, link the ram from the CPU frequency. Also tried changing the mutlipliers, lowering the RAM frequency to 550Mhz etc etc. It will not go to 2.7Ghz or higher without stable results like it will just reboot and reboot.
With the CPU @ 2.6Ghz I am stable with 40C idle and 10hours of Prime95 under 100% load max temps of 51c. So I think I have more room for overclocking.
That's all the information I can think of right now. If you have any questions I will try and respond ASAP. Though it's pretty late here at the time of writing this so I will probably not be able to respond to your replies until tomorrow. Thanks!
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you're one of the 2% who hasn't, copy & paste this in your signature.
Did you not read my first sentence?
edit: Or for that fact read my post at all....
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you're one of the 2% who hasn't, copy & paste this in your signature.
That's what makes me wonder right there. It is basically a cold cpu, and should be able to hit at least a 2.9Ghz, but then I realized you are using an Intel. JK
Did you consider that you might have a stability hole? I know you said that it isn't stable above 2.6, but did you try to crank it up a little extra and skip over 2.7? The guys at Bit-tech ran into that problem when testing the Q6600 and a Asus P5K Deluxe.
You also said that you played with a bunch of combinations, I'm assuming you played around with the CPU Voltage at the same time as the vCore Voltage?
And you said you played with the multipliers. Other than that man, I hate to say it, but I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you just have a faulty MOBO or CPU.
I'm still a learner when it comes to this OC stuff, so I'll be watching this thread for when someone wiser than I posts.